Understanding the Concept of Esports Betting

Esports betting is a relatively new fixed-odds betting type that esports fans can access via online sportsbooks so they can stake wagers on the outcome of ongoing matches. Actually, odds are being offered by bookmakers on thousands of matches being played daily throughout the globe. There are odds on every feature of competitive play, especially in sportsbooks that offer live betting odds on the major competitions.

Comprehending the Concept of Esports Betting

It should be clear to newbies venturing into esports betting that competitive video gaming can be between individual players or teams and not individual players versus computers.

However, it’s important to research and compare what a betting site offers as competitive odds and about the betting aspects covered by the game. Those who seriously want to engage in purely esports betting should check out esports-dedicated betting sites that maintain a constant selection of pre-match betting odds and esports live betting odds for different niche games.

Esports betting is not different from betting on traditional sports like football or basketball as athletes carry on with the competition amidst thousands of fans showing their support for their team.

Yet unlike betting on traditional sports, punters can watch live streams of competitions at Twitch, Facebook and YouTube. Millions of fans are largely interested in how the gamers are navigating their way to win in the head-to-head competition known as the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA).

Top MOBA Games for Esports Betting

Multiplayer online battle arena games are deemed as the most suitable because they occur as online real-time strategy RTS games between two teams of characters. Each team valiantly defends their stronghold and protects their home base. Each team’s army of heroes can destroy structures in order to bring down the stronghold of the opponent.
The biggest games ideal for esport betting are the team-based League of Legends and DOTA 2. Yet in terms of prize money split between the competing teams, of which the largest share was awarded to the winner. In DOTA 2’s concluding competition in 2019, The International broke record for amassing funds from advertising contracts, sponsorship deals and income from ticket and merchandise sales, which amounted to a staggering $34.3 million

Other Top Titles for Esports Betting

Fortnite
PUBG
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Call of Duty and
Halo

FIFA World Cup Arrives in South Korea In Line with Annual World Tour

  • Last week, the official FIFA World Cup arrived in Seoul, Korea as part of the Cup’s annual tour since 2006, making the event the 4th time for the country. The arrival and presentation of the FIFA Cup has always been well received since football is the number one most popular sport in S. Korea.

The display serves as an important inspiration for young Korean athletes, as they strive to become the next generation of national football players who will finally win the FIFA championship for the country. It’s a dream not far from coming true, since South Korea’s national football team, known as the “Korea Republic ” became the first member of the Asian Football Confederation to qualify as a FIFA World Cup semi-finalist in 2002. Since then, the Korean Republic has consistently qualified in every FIFA World Cup championship series held every four years.

Actually, the K League, the count ry’s long-running domestic professional football association, has been constantly sponsoring minor football conferences, as a way to encourage increased involvement and participation in the sport.

Prominent Football Personalities Officiated the Unveiling of the FIFA World Cup Display

In attendance to help with the unveiling and presentation of the World Cup were two of the most revered football players in S. Korea, national football legends Park Ji-sung, and Cha Bum-kun. The two icons, along with Paulo Bento, the current head coach of the Korea Republic national team, joined Brazilian football star Rivaldo Ferreira in unveiling the FIFA World Cup in Yeouido at The Hyundai Seoul.

Can South Koreans Stake Wagers on Football Matches?

South Koreans’ love for football had also nurtured and encouraged the gambling streak in many sports enthusiasts. While becoming a football player is not in the destiny of other Koreans, many simply found fulfillment in engaging in sports betting. This despite the government’s prohibition against sports betting, except if wagered on horse, boat and cycling competitions. According to the results of a 2019 survey, 22.7% of those who responded to the survey indicated football as their favorite sport, while baseball came in second with a 20.6 % score.

Actually, the state-run major betting site Sports Proto, sometimes accepts wagers for local football and baseball tournaments. However, local gamblers can’t find the same competitive betting odds and betting markets available in offshore-based betting sites.

International operators are not only reputed for  having the broadest array of betting products to offer punters. They are also known to be generous with sign-up bonus offers and payment of cashback or rebates for regular players. The problem though is that one shouldn’t be too eager to get onboard a sports betting platform, as there are many unscrupulous operators who take advantage of overzealous gamblers.

The good news is that members of Korea’s toto community are giving reviews and recommendations, of the best toto betting sites verified as the most secure and safe playground (안전놀이터) in South Korea.

Vietnam All Set to Assert Its Position in Asian eSports via the 2021 SEA Games

In a 2020 worldwide survey report published by data portal Statista, Vietnam emerged as having the highest number of adult video gamers on a global scale. This doesn’t come as a surprise since the country has played host to numerous international esports tournaments. Actually, the Vietnam Recreational and Electronic Sport Association (VIRESA) launched local esport competitions sometime in April, in line with the association’s goal of finding Vietnamese esports athletes who will compete in the forthcoming 31st SEA Games to be held in Hanoi from November 21 to December 02, 2021.

VIRESA sees the SEA Games as an excellent opportunity for Vietnam to assert its position in Asia’s esports, being one of 40 athletic tournaments in which 11 countries will compete. The national esports association firmly believes that Vietnam is home to many strong esports teams and athletes, since the country’s representatives in several international events have attained remarkable achievements.

eSports was featured before, as a mere exhibition tournament in the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia. However, in December 2020, all 40 National Olympic Committee members of the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly voted unanimously to include esports as a medal sport in the 2021 SEA Games. The voting was actually in response to gaming company Razer’s request to include esports, as the organizers’ original plan was to exclude the sport due to budgetary constraints caused by the pandemic.

Popularity of Esports Betting in Vietnam

It also doesn’t come as a surprise that the popularity of esports has also made it one of top betting markets in the country’s local sports betting arena. Although avid Vietnamese punters have to carry on with their sports betting activities as discreetly as possible. Mainly because the only legal sports on which Vietnamese residents can stake wagers are football, horse races and greyhound races

What’s more, even if the government of Vietnam has lifted the ban on sports betting via a 5-year pilot program, the country has yet to see its first legal bookmaker. As it is, sports betting in the country mostly take place online, although online gambling is still not legal as a gambling activity in the country.

Vietnamese esports enthusiasts simply access the betting offers of offshore betting sites, using mobile gambling apps and through virtual private networks (VPN), as an alternative to using the country’s public Internet. In fact newcomer vwin is fast gaining ground as a favorite sports betting site among the predominantly Vietnamese-speaking residents. The site’s betting predictions and betting offers are provided in Vietnamese language.

Actually, vwin is the designated Asian online gambling partner of Italian football clubs A.C. Milan Serie A and Club Juventus. Which is why the vwin mobile gambling app is also available in English, Chinese and Thai.

South Korea’s PC Bangs : The Role They Played in the Evolution of eSports

The prominence of Korean gamers in e-sport doesn’t come as a surprise since video gaming as recreation and as a profession has the support of their government. In the midst of all the acclaim and worldwide recognition received by South Korea as having the best professional esports gamers, a place called PC bangs will always be mentioned as a fundamental training ground for many of the country’s e-sport celebrities.

What is a PC Bang

PC, of course, stands for personal computer, while the Korean word “bang” literally means room. PC bangs actually started out as conventional Internet cafes where people can access PCs during the early days of the Internet boom. Yet they later transitioned into becoming the perfect venues for video gamers.

Firstly because in a PC bang, Korean gamers can play incessantly with high Internet speed at affordably low costs. Secondly, it was more enjoyable to play in a venue where one can be with other gamers. The so-called LAN (local area network) enabled PC interconnectivity among gamers, especially in a multi-player role-playing game. Thirdly, most Korean video game players come from middle class families where only one PC is available in a single home, where it was not possible for them to play uninterruptedly and for long hours.

PC Bang Gamers and the Beginnings of Video Game Competitions

Initially, PC bang gamers organized competitions between themselves, which at first were merely for bragging rights. Later, to make the friendly competitions even more exciting, PC bang gamers staked bets, which they pooled as prize money for the player/s who will dominate or succeed in a free-for-all, real-time strategy (RTS) game like Starcraft.

Eventually, South Korea’s video gaming industry recognized the potential of holding official tournaments as a means of promoting their video games. This was particularly true for Blizzard Entertainment, since Starcraft was the most popular game in the country at that time. In the meantime, PC bangs started mushrooming in South Korean cities as there was great demand for more venues where video gamers can converge and practice playing Starcraft to the hilt.

As a matter of fact, it was because of Starcraft that the world’s first video gaming league, the Korea Pro Gaming League (KPGL) was established in South Korea in 1998. In 2000, the country’s video game industry gained the support of the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Sports and Tourism (MCST), as it initiated the establishment of the Korean eSports Association. In the same year, the MCST launched the first World Cyber Games, and from then on, the world of esports took shape and form.

PC bangs likewise evolved and transformed as they took to heart, their significance as the unofficial training grounds for many of South Korea’s celebrity esports athletes. Fast forward in today’s video gaming environment, for a PC bang to be highly competitive, it must be fully equipped with the latest in video gaming and communication technologies.

Aside from offering food that gamers can order right from the PC they are using, there are also PC bangs with exercise facilities. That way, customers aspiring to become professional esports athletes can adopt similar training styles implemented in facilities used by professional esports athletes.

In the natural course of how sports competitions go, major esports tournaments became additional betting markets for sportsbook operators. Although sports betting is not as completely legal in South Korea as it is in some countries, there are trustworthy local betting sites (토토사이트) that connect bettors to online sportsbooks accepting wagers on esports tournaments.

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Evolution’s Live Game Shows : Live Casino Entertainment On a Different Level

A mention of live casinos often brings to mind online table games for poker blackjack, baccarat, roulette or crap, hosted in real time by live casino dealers Evolution Gaming (EG) though, has brought live casino entertainment to a different level by introducing Live Game Shows, which are likewise hosted in real time by real life gameshow hosts.

Online casino visitors connecting to the Live Casino segment running on EG’s software, can view an ongoing Live Show bonus game; but only those who place bets can participate.

This new Live Casino category is called “Crazy Time” and is relatively new as it was introduced by Evolution Gaming only last July 2020, during the 2020 International Casino Exposition (ICE). Harnessing EG’s highly popular Dreamcatcher Money Wheel, players simply place bets either on the wheel’s number spots or on any of the four featured Bonus Games, namely: “Cash Hunt,” “Crazy Time Bonus Round”, “Coin Flip,” and “Pachinko.”

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EG’s “Crazy Time Live Game Show Runs on True RNG

The great thing about “Crazy Time Live Game Show” is that it runs on an advanced type of Random Number Generator (RNG), which has the distinction of being a producer of truly random numbers.

Where the conventional RNGs generate pseudo-random results by way of a predetermined condition, an advanced RNG generates outcomes that are not reproducible or repeatable. Here, the advanced random outcomes depend on elements that exist only in the environment or hardware of the online casino player, e.g. time, number of mouse clicks, temperature or noise levels.

How “Crazy Time Live Game Show” Works

Starting with the “Crazy Time Main Game,” which an online or mobile casino player can activate by placing bets on the Dreamcatcher Money Wheel; either on the number spots or bonus game spots.

Take note of the 2-reel Top Slot above the money wheel, as this will also spin in conjunction with the Dreamcatcher game device.

The first reel indicates a multiplier that can be won,while the second reel returns with the number spot or the bonus game to which the multiplier will apply. Let us say a 5x multiplier appears in the first reel, along with the Number 10 on the second reel. If there’s a Money Wheel bet placed on the Number 10, winning Main Game players wins 5x the value of the bet wagered on Number 10.

That denotes that if the 2-reel Top Slot did not produce an outcome that matches the result of the Dreamcatcher Money Wheel, a multiplier is not available and the winner will collect winnings based on the value of his or her bet.

EG’s Interactive Live Game Show is Available in Pay and Play Casinos

The good news is that EG’s “Crazy Time Live Game Show” is available in Pay and Play Casinos, or in online/mobile casinos that also make use of Trustly’s automated ID verification and payment processing systems.

Pay and Play online casinos simply allow players to engage in casino gaming without requiring them to open and maintain a gaming account, or even provide personal information details. Customers of Pay and Play casinos can resume their real money gaming activities any time by just placing a deposit with Trustly. However, these special type of real money online gambling websites are at the moment, accessible only in Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland and Germany.

Nonetheless, when looking for gaming websites that also allow participation without need to register as members, but are located outside of those four European jurisdictions, try accessing one from the list of No Registration (No Account) casinos that have been reviewed by Casinochap.com. If Trustly is among the accredited payment processors, and you have an active Trustly ewallet from which your casino deposit will be derived, there’s a likelihood that the online casino will let you play without opening an account.